As you can see from the low vote count, it’s still early days in regards to the top ten novels of 2011. The wild card in this batch is The Seventh Throne by Stephen Zimmer, a small press book that has benefitted from the author rallying his friends and fans. It will be interesting to see if Zimmer can sustain the momentum!

17 other titles got one vote, underscoring that the cover category has a long way to go yet before it reveals a dominant aesthetic or opinion.

At the moment we’re finding voters playing it safe in regards to voting on a cover, tending to vote on the visual elements of the same books that they favor in a literary sense. It will be interesting to discover whether the votes break from that trend or reinforce it. (We hope they break. More interesting that way.)

Hurricane Zimmer strikes again! 42 other pieces of short fiction garnered one vote each, which tells us a few things: 1.) It’s still early days. And 2.) We may need to seek out more short fiction!

The Best Comic votes break down as follows:

There are too few votes to collect here, so far. The only title with more than one vote so far is TURF by Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards.

What’s in the mix so far is interesting, though. You’ll find Batman and Spawn alongside Girl Genius, and Terry Moore’s Echo, as well as a handful of manga titles and one Vertigo release, House of Mystery.

Webcomics have yet to stake their claim here, as well, but that seems likely to change.